Release Checklist

• Assume Linux OS and you are on the release branch, e.g. 4.0.0
• Test performance on minimum Linux and OS X
• Compile and crosscompile on ARM
• Update CHANGELOG
• Update version number in configure.ac
• Submit pull request, accept and checkout master
• Pull latest code for netmap
• git clean -dfx (don't forget to back up project files)
• mkdir -p build && cd build
• ../autogen.sh
• ../configure --with-testnic=enp0s5 --with-netmap=/home/fklassen/git/netmap --enable-asan
• make
• Test with sudo make test
• sudo make maintainer-clean
• ../autogen.sh
• ../configure --with-testnic=enp0s5 --with-netmap=/home/fklassen/git/netmap
• git tag -u [email protected] v4.x.x -m "4.x.x"
• make version
• make clean
• make
• make dist-gzip
• make dist-xz
• Test tarballs on a netmap capable machine
• gpg -ab -u [email protected] tcpreplay-4.x.x.tar.gz
• gpg -ab -u [email protected] tcpreplay-4.x.x.tar.xz
• Commit changes
• git push
• git push --tags
• Create PR from release branch to master and Merge pull request
• git checkout master
• git pull origin master
• If this is a beta release
  • Create a pre-release in GitHub and provide CHANGELOG comments
  • Upload tar balls and PGP signatures to the GitHub pre-release
• else if this is a full release
  • upload to SourceForge
  • update FreeCode
  • make docs
  • copy/paste docs/web/*.html contents to man pages in appneta/appneta.github.io project man pages
• Update wiki downloads
• Update wiki news
• Update GitHub release notes
• Announce to mail list
• Tweet
• Close any related GitHub milestones